About Stephanie
Stephanie Sligo-Baker is a licensed independent clinical social worker with 37 years of experience in Minnesota. She focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and life changes. She respects each person and listens without judgment.
Her approach is straightforward and adaptive. She tailors conversations and plans to each person's situation. Sessions aim to build coping skills, improve sleep and eating habits, and address relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
How Stephanie works
Stephanie uses several therapy methods to match a client's needs. She draws on attachment-informed work to look at patterns in relationships. She uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are offered for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. She has long experience supporting people with addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and communication problems.
She also understands issues around LGBT identity and alternative sexual cultures like BDSM and kink. Stephanie has worked with first responders and healthcare workers who experienced job-related trauma. Her style is calm, practical, and respectful.
She helps people take small, manageable steps toward clearer routines and better day-to-day functioning.
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What Stephanie works with
The areas below are the ones Stephanie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 37 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
How Stephanie’s approaches translate to online work
Stephanie uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationship patterns affect emotions and behavior; this helps with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and attachment difficulties. Client-centered therapy means sessions are paced around the person's priorities and lived experience, with the therapist listening deeply and reflecting back what matters most.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and routines, which is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and some addiction-related habits. Together these approaches give practical tools and a supportive space to try new ways of coping and relating. The therapist works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person's goals and preferences rather than applying a single fixed model.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work and teaching skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and a lower-effort way to share updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use different formats as needs change.
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